Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era ...

A negative hand, one of the oldest types of imagery in the world, found in El Castillo. Negative hands were often made using a spit-painting technique in which someone would place their hand on the ...

Rashid’s book is as much a people’s history of Mesopotamia as it is a history of objects, great personages and notable events ...

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The Rohonc Codex is one of the most enigmatic manuscripts in existence, an illustrated book filled with hundreds of unknown ...

Mesopotamian scribes wrote about feeling anger in their feet and love in their liver. Learn about the similarities and ...

Cryptanalysts were unable to decipher the code, and it is still undeciphered to this day. The FBI even put out a request in ...

In the 19th century, archaeologists excavating the ancient ruins of Nineveh, present-day Mosul in Iraq, unearthed one of the ...

Buried for 4,500 Years in a Sealed Clay Coffin, This Ancient Egyptian’s Secret Is Rewriting Everything We Thought We Knew ...

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